Internet Entrepreneurs Choose Passive Income

(3rd July, 2010)

Has there ever been a better time for the entrepreneur? I was around in the Thatcher era when everyone and his dog was encouraged to start a business. Never had the UK had so many window cleaners, gardeners and handymen.
While those start ups were made by the folk prepared to ‘get on their bikes and [...]

Shaun Smith Scam Alert

(6th March, 2010)

I’ve had several friends and colleagues on and off the island contact me about a new online money making system doing the rounds called £700 in a day.
Please avoid at all costs. It is operated by a known scam artist from Birmingham called Shaun Smith.
He claims to provide a system to make money online but [...]

Bing Brings Relevancy To Twitter

(24th October, 2009)

Bing has followed up on its deal with Twitter (and Facebook) by announcing it has attempted to bring some sort of order to  tweet search results.
How do they rank one tweet from another? It seems they base the relevancy of their search results on how many followers the person who made the post on Twitter [...]

SEO or PPC?

(31st July, 2009)

PPC is pretty much instant traffic which means you can quickly test out keyword profitability and landing page performance. If the campaign returns a profit then of course you will want to continue it.
But, once you find a winning combination of keyword and offer, your goal should be to rank number 1 in the Google [...]

Social Media For Isle of Man Business

(22nd June, 2009)

When Dell last week announced they had surpassed $3 Million in sales from it’s Twitter followers since it started twittering in 2007 the business world rightly sat up and took notice of the social media platform.
Dell’s monetary success though is an exception to the rule, as is being able to measure a social media campaign’s [...]

A Corporate Blog – Worth The Effort?

(19th June, 2009)

What are the benefits of having a corporate blog for an Isle of man business and is blogging worth the time and effort for your company?
Google loves blogs because they (should) update often and the content is constantly changing thanks to the built in interactivity features. If your corporate web site is stagnent, adding a [...]

The Value Of SEO

(15th June, 2009)

To know how much SEO is worth to your business you first need to know how much a visitor is worth to you.
If you are selling online then this isn’t a problem – Your website sells a product that makes you £50 profit and you make A sale every 100 visitors so you know  each [...]

Google Quality Score Explained

(15th June, 2009)

Google wants it’s customers (aka Googlers) to enjoy their search experience and so far it has done a good job. It dominates the search engine market with more visitors than all of it’s competitors combined.
It’s search engine results are considered to be the best available and Google soon realised that if it were to continue [...]